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"Music is her great passion and she wants to pass this passion on to as many people as possible. So she came up with the idea of travelling the world as a street musician and bringing music to people who can't afford an expensive ticket to a concert."
(Karin Wunsam, Innpuls, 15/6/2024, innpuls.me/vroni-holzmann-tourt-wieder-mit-klavier)
The Piano on Channel 4 - Season 2, Episode 3
(Vroni was selected to perform and became runner up for finalist on this show)
Lang Lang: "Wow!"
Mika: "I think she's kind of brilliant."
Lang Lang: "So normally this piece, after playing eight bars, you start to have a sore arm."
Claudia: "Vroni, you're amazing."
Mika: "Brilliant! That's the kind of intensity we were talking about when we first got here. It's what we didn't know we needed, but what we need."
Lang Lang: "Yes."
Mika: "A bumble boogie. A Rimsky-Korsakov bumble boogie."
Claudia: "Let's talk about Vroni."
Lang Lang: "The connection she made is spontaneous."
Mika: "It's kind of a conversation between two completely different styles of music. I love that combination."
(The Piano, Channel 4 Broadcast, 12/5/2024)
Go to Channel 4 - The Piano - S2E3
Vroni & the Seppls: Bavarian Traditions - Edinburgh Fringe Show at the BlundaBus
" This is such a fantastic show! My Dad and my wife first stumbled across this show at the 2022 Ed Fringe, and we were SO EXCITED to come back and see it again in 2023, we planned all the other shows we saw around this one. The show is so fun and interactive, and when the crowd gets going, it really raises the roof!
Highly, highly recommend this feel good show. "
(Chloe Carroll, Edfringe.com, 29/8/2023)
Vroni & the Seppls: Bavarian Traditions - Edinburgh Fringe Show at the BlundaBus
“ In the Bavarian traditions show Vroni’s amazing musical abilities create a truly sensational experience! The talented musicians bring so much joy and entertainment to the performance. It’s impossible not to join in with the traditional Bavarian tunes or to leave without a smile on your face! "
(Miriam Salter, Edfringe.com, 1/9/2023)
Go to Edfringe.com
Streetpiano Tour of Europe 2023 - Article in Nordbayerischer Kurier
" A piano has returned home - artist Vroni Holzmann is touring Europe with her little Steingraeber piano "
(Christian Troche, Nordbayerischer Kurier, 12/8/2023)
Streetpiano Tour of Europe 2023 - Article in OVB Rosenheim
" Around the world with a piano - originally from Rosenheim, artist is on tour with her minibus - today she will perform on the Max-Josefs-Platz "
(Jennifer Beuerlein, Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, 6/8/2023)
Geliebtes Schottland - Announcement of Photography Exhibition in Rosenheim
" Geliebtes Schottland - Vroni Holzmann exhibits in the Vetternwirtschaft "
Scotland - Article in Echo Rosenheim
" Einsam und Wasserrauschend - translation of Echo article "
Streetpiano in the Meadows 2021 - Article in Edinburgh Reporter
" Vroni Holzmann played the Meadows this summer "
(Edinburgh Reporter, 29/11/2021)
Go to Edinburgh Reporter online
Empty Edinburgh - Article in Echo Rosenheim
" Grandios und reglos innehaltend "
(Echo, 2/12/2020)
Stag and Red Moon - Classical Music Videos with Astrid Tontson
" I believe healing is from within and through your music I can feel my authentic self. Thank you for sharing ♥ "
Watch Stag at Bushy Park and Red Moon
Empty Edinburgh - Photo Calendar
“ The photographer from Rosenheim took the opportunity to capture the suddenly empty town and created a calendar from these impressive images. "
(Robert Nusser, Echo, 2/12/2020)
Amateur - Poetry Review
“ How could a stranger who writes seven seas away from me knows what my heart feels? Your wordplay is simply mesmerizing ... "
(dharti_shethiya, Instagram, 18/7/2020)
Read Amateur on my poetry page
Glow on the Horizon - Classical Piano Album
“ Evocative droplets of magic, fittingly grouped under the title, 'Glow on the Horizon'. A joy to play, and to listen to. ”
(Derek Williams, Composer and President of the Wagner Society, 9/2/2020)
Vroni Holzmann's Classical Piano Music at NHS Recovery College
“ ... she is also a gifted composer of relaxing piano music. This set of pieces transports you from a place of peace, security and low activation to increasingly warm feelings of relaxation and calm. "
(Nigel Osborne, Reid Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Edinburgh, 20/4/2020)
Vroni Holzmann's Classical Piano Music at NHS Recovery College
" Let Vroni’s musical invocations of snow, clouds, the wind and a lost embrace lead from low activation to relaxation. "
(Nigel Osborne, Reid Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Edinburgh, 20/4/2020)
Vroni Holzmann's Classical Piano Music at NHS Recovery College
" This set of pieces takes you from a place of peace, security and low activation to feelings of warmth and relaxation, and then, in the last piece, to the benign simplicity and austerity of nature. "
(Nigel Osborne, Reid Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Edinburgh, 20/4/2020)
Dream Tree - Classical Piano Album
“ In this new album of piano music, many of the pieces involve a simple, deliberate-sounding phrase, repeated several times before being developed, sometimes reaching towards a climax, sometimes fading out. The result is clear-cut musical phrasing, and highly affecting…
…this is emotive, inspirational music that rewards repeated listening. ”
(Alexander Bryce, Scotland on Sunday, 5/2/2015)
Travelling Europe with a Piano - Article on Piano InForum
“ Vroni Holzmann has been travelling through Europe with her Steingraeber piano since 2000. The cities she has visited already are painted onto the piano. In 2012 she travelled through Scandinavia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Latvia. She thinks of Germany and Great Britain as wonderful countries to play her piano in. The piano gets transported with a van. To unload the piano she tends to need a little help, but this has never been a problem so far. She could always find passersby who could give a hand.
The streetpianist delights the crowd with her piano, performing ragtime, jazz or boogie-woogie. Born in Rosenheim, she now resides in Edinburgh. In Great Britain there is no need to get a licence to perform on the street, but this is different in Spain and Italy. In Verona she even had to abort her street concert. The listeners found themselves arguing with the police that she should be allowed to continue performing. However difficult it is, she just wants to bring her piano to where people can see and hear it. Rather than in concert halls she wants to play in the street so people can find it easier to forget their everyday life.
In the meantime she has published her first album: 'Wandelung'. Now you can listen to Vroni Holzmann at home. "
Watch 10 Years of Streetpiano video
Wandelung - Classical Piano Album
“ …ambitious, yet similarly reflective and resonant. The opening ‘Wandelung – Preface’, evoking a frozen winter scene, made do with widely spaced chords and gently rippling arpeggios, yet the effect was magical. Bittersweet melodies surfaced in Holzmann’s ‘Zwei Welten’ and ‘Wandelung’, turning over and over, and seeming to view the same material from different angles. ”
(David Kettle, The Edinburgh Reporter, 25/1/2012)
Wandelung - Classical Piano Album
“ … meditative rather than declamatory… Ravel comes to mind, as does Arvo Pärt ”
(Alexander Bryce, Scotland on Sunday, 8/5/2011)
Wandelung - Classical Piano Album
“ The calm and softly pulsating rhythms of the two piano cycles radiate a feeling of great tranquility and comfort”
(Georg Füchtner, Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, 22/3/2011)
Wandelung - Classical Piano Album
“ … very affective… and instantly appealing ”
(Jamie MacDougall, BBC Radio Scotland, 13/2/2011)
A Quiet Room and Sparrows - Classical Chamber Music
“ Vroni Holzmann’s ‘A Quiet Room and Sparrows’ was mesmerising in it’s rhythm and building melody ”
(Josie Balfour, Edinburgh Evening News, 3/11/2009)